> -----Original Message----- > From: neil [mailto:neilcuk@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:35 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: what are the restrictions on bootable partitions? > > > > > rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > what are the restrictions on where i can install another > linux distro > >onto my fedora core (actually, FC2-t3) system so that grub > can find it? > >(even though this is a test version of fedora, this question actually > >refers to FC distros in general.) > > > > > There are no restrictions other than the boot loader (grub) > must be able > to read the boot partition. > > > typically, for historical reasons, even when i use LVM, i > create a small > >primary, ext3 filesystem for /boot, and use LVM for the rest > of the drive. > >is there any compelling reason for doing this anymore? what's the > >recommended strategy for LVM? and need for a non-LVM > filesystem on newer > >machines? > > > It really depends on what the system will be used for. Check out the > howto here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html I've actually looked through the howto but am still unable to determine how to actually create a lvm system. I've recompiled my kernel to have the devive mapper as a module and modprobe'ed it. When I try to do vgscan it states that the kernel modules are not loaded. Please help. > > > > > and, on top of all this, i want to add at least one other > distro to the > >system; in this case, xandros 2.0, for evaluation for a > client. can i add > >this additional distro entirely within LVM and have grub > still find it > >properly? i suspect yes, but i wanted to make sure before i > spent all > >that installing. thanks. > > > > > Grub will still need to run outside of an LVM area. Keeping > your /boot > partition in an acceptable format (such as ext3, as you have > done in the > past) is the ideal way to do this. Other than that - if your distro > kernel supports LVM you should have no problems having the / > partition > on an LVM. However, I would avoid putting a new distro within an LVM > portion of another distro - but that's just because I value > my sanity. > But if you got your grub configuration correct, I don't see why this > can't be done - any one care to prove me wrong? > > >rday > > > > > > > > > neil > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
